[onetimeuse92304]

I think it would be better if you just red my comment more carefully.

Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers". That's something YOU wrote. You took words "hunter" and "gathered" and created in your mind "hunter-gatherer" which is completely different because it has a specific meaning.

People are still hunting and still gathering to this day. This does not make them hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherers describe a civilisation that is primarily concerned with hunting because they do not farm anything. These people were clearly farming, but farming does not exclude hunting or gathering.

The pottery, bones, compost and manure do not indicate advanced knowledge of farming. This just describes a dumping ground of a pre-industrial civilisation. That's pretty much all of the garbage they had. And they had to throw it somewhere and that somewhere was around them where the fields were.

I am not saying they didn't have any knowledge, but saying they had advanced knowledge is just jumping to conclusions.

[yetihehe]

I agree with everything you said in both your posts, but you should maybe try to be less condescending.

[onetimeuse92304]

Condescending on the original comment was because the authors could have asked any farmer and would get an explanation of what is happening.

Condescending on a response was because a guy didn't even bother to read my comment and was putting stuff in my mouth that I didn't say. And also because uses condescending language (like "hilariously absurd") when clearly wrong.

Do I think people should be nice to each other? Yeah, I do. But I also believe my self-imposed obligation to being nice to you is conditioned on you following minimum rules. I am not expecting much, really. Like don't say I wrote something which I did not. Or put a minimum effort when writing an article if you expect kind response. If you don't do it, I reserve my right to respond about it the way how I feel.

I believe requiring everybody to be nice to everybody else in every possible situation is not a good way to have an advanced civilisation. I think there was a Black Mirror episode to that effect.

[biorach]

Whatever. Just don't be condescending

[boffinAudio]

The problem is they are not just condescending, but also just plain wrong.

[biorach]

Oh yeah, obviously. It's all a bit embarrassing. But easiest to get one message across at a time.

[yellowapple]

> Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers".

Earlier:

> If you have a village and you hunt and gather every day

[calamari4065]

> I think it would be better if you just red my comment more carefully.

> Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers". That's something YOU wrote. You took words "hunter" and "gathered" and created in your mind "hunter-gatherer" which is completely different because it has a specific meaning.

[yellowapple]

Someone who hunts and gathers every day is definitionally a hunter-gatherer, and vice versa. If you didn't mean to call them hunter-gatherers, then perhaps it's you who should be writing your comments more carefully.

[calamari4065]

> Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers". That's something YOU wrote. You took words "hunter" and "gathered" and created in your mind "hunter-gatherer" which is completely different because it has a specific meaning.

[yellowapple]

> Someone who hunts and gathers every day is definitionally a hunter-gatherer, and vice versa. If you didn't mean to call them hunter-gatherers, then perhaps it's you who should be writing your comments more carefully.